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The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Mr. H. 6. Darsie Of Pittsburgh, with his
wife and two children, arrived in Somerset
last week to spend the summer They are
boarding at Mrs Parker's.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Considerable hay has already been made
hcrosbouts
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

The demand for extra copies of last weeks
HERALD containing am account of the great
food, exhausted the supply shortly after the
day of issue
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

So far the primary canvass has passed of
quietly and pleasantly The best of feeling
seems to prevail among the candidates, and
we have the first one yet 20 meet who does
not feel confident thar he is goingto be nom
mated 1t Is just possible that some Of them
will be disappointed
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

What has become of the stneet-sprinkler
Isn't i; about time to put it in operation
again?
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Collector Dowlin, Of ;lie Twenty second
revenue district has. roccivei official notifi-
cation Of the consolidation of the
Tbirty-third and Nineteenth districts
The transfer will be made on June Both
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Landlord Higinbotham and wife returned
Saturday from visit to relatives in Iatrobe.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Spring chickens are ripe, and the crop is
an abundant one They are selling at fifty
cents a pair.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Every Republican should attend the pri-
mary election saturday. and should vote for
the men whom he deems hest qualified TO fiji
the various ,ouny Offices. Don't stay at
home and then growl because the ticket
nominated don't suit you.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

The brickiayers are at work ON Mrs Case
beers new residence, on Patriot street
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

DIR. Brubaker has greatly improved the
appearance Of his residence by having it
freshly painted
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Quite a number Of summer visitors have
already arrived in town. The hotels and
boarding houses are rapidly filling up.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Mr. VIM. +. Boyts has been appointed
postmaster At Fair Hope this county.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

The Johnstown Tribnae says Johnstown,
with the addition Of the population in Sto-
nycreek township that seeks admission to
the municipality, viii contain ten thousand
inhabitants and will be entitled to a charter
as a city of the seventh class.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

Notwithstanding the fact that the law Civ
ing bounty for scsllps has been repealed. a
goodly number will be taken Saturday.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

The Somerset HERALD completed its fifth
eth year on Wednesday, and the same day
marked the completion Of Hon. Edward
Sculrs thirty-sixth year as its editor. The
fact that the HERALD is intensely devoted to
the interestsof the Republican party does
not blind rs 10 its virtues. We checrfully
bear testimony to lis merits. and express the
wish that lis days and the days of its editor
may he long IN the land--B Be,lford Gasette.
We are in receipt Of al' invitation 10 al
tend the marriage of Mr. George b. Baer, to
Miss Sarah Markell. daughter ofDr. Markell,
Of Cloverdale, California. The ceremony
viii take place at hali-past eight o'clock this
evening in the Congregational church at
Cloverlale. The HERALDjoins with Georges
many other Somerset friends in extending
most hearty congratulations and wishing
sor himself and fair young bride long, pros
porous and happy married life.
7" Uncle sam lost enc Of his ilirest and
most accommodating employees at o'clock
last "Wednesday afternoon when Miss
Alice schrock, clerk at the Somerset
Postofiire became Mrs. John e Sanner. The
marriage ceremony was performed hy Rev.
Chamberlain. OF Philadelphia, in the pres
enoe of only few of the relatives of the
bride and groom. at the residence of Post
master Coffroih The bride Is a daughter of
Mai. Ed Scbrock and was one Of Somerset's
Tl.. hrsiaf
couple left shortly after the ceremony for a
brief visit TO the bride parents at Columbus,
Nebrask, when they will return TO Somerset,
and occupy their newly erected home on
Turkeyfoot street Friend Sitting kept
the secret dark, but the HERALD extends its
best wishes. just the same
4 telegram was received in Somerset from
Washington. d. c. THURSDAY evening an
nonncing the death Of Mr. VIII Lint only
son Of our aged and esteemed iellow-towns-
man, Gillian Lint, Esq Mr.. Lint had been
resident Of Washington for a number of
years having left Somerset when quite a
Young man. His health had not been good
for some years past. but the announcement
Of his sudden death Thursday evening was
great shock TO his many relatives and friends
in Somerset Immediately upon the receipt
Of the telegram Mr. George Snyder, Mr.. Lint's
brotlser-in-law. left for Washington returning
with the remains Saturday morning. The
funeral took place at halfpast six o'clock
saturday evening from the residence Of Mr.
Snyder VIII Lint was born on tfie 2end
day OF january, 1876, and was consequently
in the ilsi year Of his age at the time Of his
death. His aged and grief-stricken parents
have the sympathy Of the entire community
in their sad bereavement
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22

The labors Of the weary candidate are al
most al an end
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1887-06-22
JOHN A. WALTER,
RESOURCES.

We, the undersigned Auditors of Somerset Bor
ongh hereby certify that We have examined and
added the vouchers and papers pertaining to the
foregoing statement and find them correct
Ia testimony whereof we have affixed onr
hands and seals, the lith day of June, 1857.
JOHN s. SHAFER. lsEAL-l
JOHN n. SNYDER, fsEAL.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
PLEASANT PICTURES.
How Electricity May Revolutionize Far
Work In the Near Future.

How Electricity May Revolutionize Farm
Work in the Near Future.
VIII electricity ever be made cheap
and effective motive power on the
farmp We think it will, and we think
the present generation will see it APP
piled, and viii enjoy the benefits of its
results. The electric light is now a
pronounced success. The transmission
of power by electricity is no longer an
experiment. The problem which cleo
tricians are now trying to solve, is how
to simplify and cheaper electrical APP
pliances, adapting them to popular and
economic use, Every day witnesses
some new invention or discovery, which
is bringing us nearer to that point.
But how can the electric current be
applied to farming purposesP In many
ways. First, in electric light. There
are seasons of the year when it would
be an incalculable advantage to turn
night into day, working as our facto-
ries do when under pressure of business,
with day and night force. For in
stance, when the season is late and the
time is very short for plowing and
planting, how very convenient it would
be to double up the time, and plow
and plant under the blaze of the
electric light. In the heated season it
would be a great relief to men and
teams to work in the cool of night and
lie in the shade during the day. Then
in the critical time of harvest how con-
venient it would be to gather in the
grain, out of the way of to-morrow's
storm.
But how will electrical energy be
generated on the farm? If there is an
available water power, it can be sue
cessfully utilized; but as every farm is
not furnished with water course, other
means of obtaining power must be re-
sorted to. When the storage of cleo
trical energy is made practicable (and
we have no doubt it will be), then the
power that is running to waste on every
farm. the wind. viii be captured and
set to work by the means of wind-mills,
and all day and night these cheap serv-
/ ants will be gathering and storing the
force of the wind to be used at will,
either in lighting the house, the barn,
or the fields, or in transmitting power
for all kinds of mechanical work, from
saying logs down to churning the but
ter or rocking the cradle.
! This is not a visionary picture of the
farm of the future. All these things
can be done to-day, but as electrical
science is yet in its infancy, there is
much vet to be done before all its grand
possibilities can be fully realized. Elec-
tricity will do our farm work before
the present generation of young men
turn their toes skyward, and we hope
we shall live long enough to saw: I've
told you 50. ~ Western PIopmas.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
IRON AND STEEL.
The Nomenclature and Compos osition of the
Various Iron Products.

Various Iron Products.
Pig-iron is melted direct from the ore
in the furnace, and contains from
three to five per cent. of carbon.
When melted it is called '.cast-iron'' or
metal. y .A.n
Spiegel iron is precisely the same, but
contains in addition from five to fifteen
per cent of manganese.
Bar-iron, often called wrought-iron,
is pig-iron which has been smelted and
deprived of nearly all its carbon, either
in pudding furnace or by the Wal
lon, Lancashire, or other. analogous
process; the spongy mass or ball of
iron is usually hammered or rolled into
bar.
Pudtlled steel is precisely the same
as ''bar-iron," except that the process
of pudding is stopped when rather
more than half of the carbon has been
removed from the pig-iron.. There is
consequently no hard and fast lines be-
tween bar-iron and puddled steel, the
one intergrading to the other by i'm
perceptible degrees. Although there
are an infinite number of intermediate
stages between the softest bar-iron and
the hardest puddled steel, and although
it is impossible to state the exact per-
centage of carbon which. marks the di-
'viding line between the one and the
other, it is usual to call all puddled
bars which can not be hardened in
water bar-iron, and all those which can,
puddled steel. This dividing line falls
somewhere near a mixture containing
one-half per cent. of carbon.
Blister-steel is bar-iron which has
been converted into steel in a convert
ing furnace, and varied in the amount
of carbon which it contains from one
half to one and one-half per cent.
Bar-steel is blister-steel which has
been tilted or rolled down to the size
required.
Cast-steel is steel that has been melted
IN pot" and poured into ''mold,
thus becoming an "ingot, which is
afterward hammered or rolled to the
size required. 1t may be of variou:
'.tempers, varying in percentage oi
carbon which they contain from three.
quarters or less to one and one-half OF
more. Industrial World,
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

John Peter Richardson, Governor
of South Carolina, is the fifth member
of his family who has been elected to
that Office.
George Augustus Sala writes so
small hand that, it is said, not sim
gle compositor's name appears on his
list of friends.
Buffalo Bill is an officer of the New
York Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals, and chum of Henry
Bergh.-N Y Mail.
William Lockport Hunter, the fa-
nous Texan hero, who was one of the
fourteen survivors of the Massacre OF
Goliad, died few days since at Austin,
Tex. He was also one of the three
men who left the fated Alamo in the
hope of securing help for the gallant
garrison. At the time of his death he
had reached his eightieth year.
joel Munsen's Sons, of Albany,
publishers of genealogies, have under
taken the compilation of large and
valuable work entitled american An
cestry,n in which the direct male line
age of every citizen of the United
States will be recorded who can trace
| his descent from families settled in
America previous to 1900. = Albany
Journal.
Mrs. Whitney's brother is quin-
tomillionaire, but is not at all spoiled
by it people say. He is in his fiftieth
year, has pleasant manners, and the
one thingin life he is inordinately vain
of-not his money, not his success, not
his million-dollar house, not his palace
car and his pictures, but-his sister,
the wife of the Secretary of the Navy.
Boston Traveller.
-Grandsons of Thomas Ewing, OF
Ohio, and Reverdy johnson, of Mary
land, are serving as pages in the Sen
ate, of which their distinguished grand
fathers were once such prominent men,
bers. Senator German, Of Maryland,
and Representatives Scott, of Pennsyl-
vania. and Townsend, of Illinois, were
pages in the House in their boyhood
days. Washington Star.
The monument to John B. Cough,
the famous temperance orator, in Hope
Cemetery, Worcester, Mass, has been
placed in position on the family lot. 1t
is a plain but tasteful and substantial
sarcophagus of granite. 1t is about
four feet in height, on base about 81
by 81 feet, and surmounted by cap
about 81 by p feet. On the middle of
the front of the base is the name
Cough, in large letters.
General Hoke, now at the head of
the new Georgia, Carolina and North
ern railroad, was a Major-General in
the Confederate army at twenty-seven
years of age When the war was over
he wanted to 90 to New York and start
life anew He had no suit but the old
gray uniform, and he had this dyed by
an old servant, while his mother COW
cred the buttons with pieces of an old
: bombazine dress.-C Chicago Tribune.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17

the preachers. The army and tht
navy retire their officers at from
sixty-two to sixty-four, for physical
reasons mainly, which seem to give
sufficient warrant. A man at sixty,
through hardships, or disease, or ex-
cesses, may be incapacitated for active
or efficient service that requires phys
ical vigor and endurance to perform it
well. But there are callings not a few
which men with sound mind in a
healthy body can pursue with force,
activity and effect, which advanced
years have but slightly impaired.
These men should be encouraged to
contribute all they can to the useful la
bors that benefit society, and not treated
slightingly or thrust aside as though
their presence were an intrusion. The
field is wide enough for all honest and
capable workers, and the worlds need
is so great that it can not afford to dis
pense with any, even the humblest gen
uine service that old or young can rem
der it.-Reu. c. VantUoord, d. d., in
N. Y. Observer.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
LEARNED DR.. JACK.
A Colored Medical Mans New Theory o.
Evolution of Diseases.


DR.. Jack, an old negro who claims
to be physician, and who has consid-
cradle practice among the supersti-
tious negroes who live in theebottoms,
approached a well-known doctor the
other day, and asked:
"Say, doctor, yer knows ole man
Ant'ny, reckonsPn
Yes
"Wall, the ole mans mighty poly,
an | wush yer'd tell me whut yer
thinks de matter wild him.
"Of course | can't tell unless exam--
inc him." the physician replied, .but
from what | know of the old fellows
character | should think that he is Il
hypochondriac.'
"Thankee, sab; thankee. OATS all |
wanter know. Thankee, sah."
DR.. Jack, struggling to remember
what the doctor had said, called on
Anthony.
''Bluder Ant'ny," said he, '1'se been
much interested in yer case, an hab hill
er 'sultation wild some o. de fines doc
tors in de country, an we'se come ter
'clusion dat yer's got de-got de-de-
er-de hippopotomus."
"My Lawd!' exclaimed the old man.
"Yas, dat's it, an now we'se got ter
take great kere ter keep it frum run
MIN infer de rhinocpros -
"My stars, yer doan tell me sou
"Yas, brudcr, tells yer so, case it's
a 'zician's duty ter tell de .truf. Yer see
da's got ter namin' 'zeases airter desc
heah circus animals now."
"Why is dat?'
lease nearly all the 'zeases in dis
country comes from de shows. Now, in
proof, lemme AK yer er pint: Amt dar
mo- sickness in dis country now den
dar wuz when yer wuz er boyP"
"Yas."
"Ah, hah; an doan mo- shows come
heah now den da did den?"
"Dat's er fack, y the old man replied,
with convinced shake Of the head.
"Wall, dat proves it," the doctor
continued. "De medicine, science an
'cology o ter-day doan' stop till trui
is dragged up by de roots. Yer mis-
cry fust come on wild pains, didn't itP''
"Yas, sah.h
"But yer still had er good apertiteP'
"Dat's whut had"
Didn't feel like stirrin' roun
muchp"
"Yer's hittin' itp' the old man eX
claimed, with the enthusiasm of sud
den conviction.
Tried ter salve de Lawd all de time
but had er powerful hankerin' airtel
fresh meat, didn't yer?"
/ - did fur er fack, doctor; I did
sho'"
"Wall. dat 'zease, at de fust openin
wuz de kangaroo.
Eyer doan' sesson
"Yas, dat's whut it wuz."
Eyer say dat it's bout ter get inte
de rhinoceros now?"
"Tryin' ter do dat, vas"
"Ef it gets inter dat, den whut?"
"W'y, den, eff we doan' check i
mighty soon it will get inter de zebra
Seed folks jes' fore da died turn
striped, amt yerp"
"Yas."
"Wall. da had de zebra. Folks wit
de rhinoceros is sometimes cured, bu
when da gets dc zebra, dar amt n
hope fur 'em. 1t takes money, | tell
yer. ter handle desc 'zeases an YER
r halter sorter hustle ter pay me. Wall
Imus' go. Dar's er chile down hea
dat's got de monkey an / mus hurr
ter keep it from runnin' inter de cata
mount. ."-Arkdnsaw 1rdgeler.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
A Bit of Cannibalism.

A native of New Hebrides once pre-.
sented himself to a missionary, accom-.
panied by two women, and asked to be
united in marriage with them.
''Two!" cried the scandalized clergy.
man. impossible; my religion forbid'
polygamy."
A few days afterward the savage re-
turned with only one, and asked that
the sacred rites might be performed.
"Bless us! Now | have only one
woman"
"And what has become of the other?"
'sMe eat herr'-1fd Bits.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
Better Than a Door-BeIl.

A pair of lead knuckles weighing
seven or eight ounces were taken from
a prisoner who was being searched al
headquarters the other day, and tn,
sergeant picked them up and asked;
What do you use these for?"
ITO knock on the door and rouse NJ
my wife when l get home late" wa:
the reply.
Then they answer for a door-bell
eh?"
That's it, sir, only they are tel
times as reliable. You can't hit you
wife with door-bell if she comes down
stairs jawing, but you can with these
I'm poor man, sir. and have to study
sll sorts Of economy. ."-Detroit FIR
Press.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The sermon, for preaching which
John Knox paid the penalty of tenn
porary suspension from preaching, in
1864, recently brought $2,075 from an
English collector.
"A movement is on foot looking to
the enlargement of Princeton College
to university proportions. The sug-
gestion came from its honored Presi-
dent McCosh. Y. Times.
--One-third of the population of Phil
adelphia hold memberships in her 657
churches, and about one-fourth the
population attend divine service on
Sunday. PHILADELPHIA Press.
A lad in South Boston having
handed his teacher note, reading:
Licking don't do this boy no good;
talk to him." provoked an inquiry that
led to the discovery that he had HIM
self written the note.-Boston Journal.
-"Our people desire extempore SER
mons, and yet you persist in using
notes" Famishing Pastor-'My dear
brother, as | never have any notes
in my pocketbook to use, you should
not object to my using them in the pull
pit. Philadelphia Call.
1t is proposed to establish in Brook
lyn a church for Chinese, at Raymond
and Fulton streets, where there is now
sort of headquarters for work among
the emigrants from the Celestial En-
pire. Over three thousand Chinese at
tend the Sunday-schools of the city
N. Y. Mail.
"A resolution has been adopted by
the Cleveland CO., Board. of Educa-
ton requesting the Committee on
Judiciary to report what legislation is
necessary in order that the Cleveland
Manual Training-School may be made
in some manner part of the public
school system.
Rev. DR.. William D. Wilson, long
senior professor and registrar of Cor
nell University, has resigned, but will
continue to be professor emeritus He
will reside henceforth at Syracuse, and
will devote himself to training young
men for the ministry of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church.-Bufalo Cou
rier.
1t is urged by some that mission
schools and household training-school'
for girls should be utilized to turn girl'
to domestic service rather than to The
shops and factories. That they viii
not seek this service is largely matter
of caste, which women can do som'
thing in their homes to remedy.-BoS
ton Herald.
One hundred and forty-nine of thu
/ five hundred and thirty-seven students
enrolled at Berlin University are Amer
leans. The day will come when appli
cants for the higher techical education
of foreign universities need not g
beyond our shores. Great institution
of learning-great in the distinction o
their professional chairs, their wealth
their appliances, their libraries ant
their patronage-can not be reared il
a day. But as our own institutions g,
there are few men who can afford to ig
more them. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-02-17
HUMOROUS.

A watch has been invented to
carry in the boot while travelling. In
this man can always travel on tick.
"How was Your son when you
neard from him lastp" "He wrote me
that he was so i'll that he could neither
sit nor stand" "Then if he tells tho
truth he must lie. IN Y. Graphic.
Jaw, Ariel, donthewno, I've
terrible cold in my head" "You
should be very grateful, Algernon.
that you have" "Why, deahP"
"You now know that you have some
thing in it. &C Chicago Tribune.
-Dobson erected danger signal.
"You are fixing it, | suppose" re-
marked Thompson, $50 that he who
runs may read" "On the contrary"
replied Dobson, II am fixing it so that
he who reads may run, ,"-Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
"A machine has been invented which
will sew on buttons as fast as seven
girls could do the work, but when it
comes to sitting up of a Sunday night
with a young man seven machines cant
begin to do the work of one girl. There
is no fear of any invention driving the
girls out of market.-Detroit Free
Press.
Tell me, my dear uncle" said
nephew to the old gentleman who, re-
nowned for his gallantry in his youth,
was relating some of his recollections,
''of all the women you have ever
known, by whom were you most
struck" by your sainted aunt, my
dear boy" was the unhesitating reply.
N. 7. Ledger.
The girls at Vassar College draw
each other into corner and mys-
teriously inquire; ''Do you know why
Prof. Blank wears plug hatPn mo;
why is it?n ITO cover his head, of
course" Then they te-he-he and no!
hol no! and write home to ma that they
passed ninety-eight per cent. in Hoyle.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Winks-''Why, | did not know
American Indians ever had idols.
Mr.. Winks-"They haven't" But
the paper says the chief of tribe of
bigger Indians daily worships stone
churn." 30! well, that's not remarka-
BILE. Since we've been boarding I've
felt as if l could worship genuine
churn myself. Omaha World.
He Was Not Joking-''Are you
married or single?" asked New York
| judge of a witness in a divorce suit.
II am not married, but my wife is. !"
Now, if you get off any more jokes il,
this courtroom, I'll lock you up for
contempt of court" "Why, Judge,
amt joking. WAS married and l got
a divorce. Ny wife married again,
but | didn't. | know when I've got
enough. so you see I'm not married,
but my wife is. You don't catch me
joking on any such serious subject as
matrimony. ."-Tezas Siftiaos,